SOPRO – Advancements in the Self-organising Production

Abstract

Rising demands to smaller lot sizes and more ﬂexibility in production processes inspired the idea of self-organising production by the use of "intelligent" parts. This is achieved by self-sustaining wireless nodes -- Process-eGrains -- to transfer the production control and logic from a centralised approach to a distributed logic. This paper will show the requirements in an industrial environment from an application perspective to these nodes. The middleware design implemented on an agent-driven architecture is presented. Abstracting different hardware to provide a uniﬁed interface for storing and processing information independently and locally and negotiate among each other. The application is exempliﬁed through a part driven assembly.

@INPROCEEDINGS{Chemnitz2010,
author={Moritz Chemnitz and J{"o}rg Kr{"u}ger and Marcel Patzlaff and Erdene-Ochir Tuguldur},
booktitle={Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2010 IEEE Conference on}, title={SOPRO - Advancements in the self-organising production},
year={2010},
month=sept.,
volume={},
number={},
pages={1 -4},
keywords={SOPRO;agent-driven architecture;distributed logic;middleware design;part driven assembly;process-eGrains;production control;self-organising production process;self-sustaining wireless nodes;small and medium enterprises;factory automation;middleware;production control;production engineering computing;production planning;small-to-medium enterprises;software agents;software architecture;},
doi={10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641198},
ISSN={1946-0740},}

Authors:

Moritz Chemnitz, Marcel Patzlaff, Tuguldur Erdene-Ochir, Jörg Krüger

Category:

Conference Paper

Year:

2010

Location:

15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Techonologies and Factory Automation ETFA 2010